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Running Deep Neural Network (DNN) models on devices with limited computational capability is a challenge due to large compute and memory requirements. Quantized Neural Networks (QNNs) have emerged as a potential solution to this problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Yaman Umuroglu , Magnus Jahre

Knowledge distillation (KD) in transformers often faces challenges due to misalignment in the number of attention heads between teacher and student models. Existing methods either require identical head counts or introduce projectors to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Zhaodong Bing , Linze Li , Jiajun Liang

Continuous learning of novel classes is crucial for edge devices to preserve data privacy and maintain reliable performance in dynamic environments. However, the scenario becomes particularly challenging when data samples are insufficient,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Huijing Zhang , Muyang Cao , Linshan Jiang , Xin Du , Di Yu , Changze Lv , Shuiguang Deng

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) promise orders-of-magnitude efficiency gains by communicating with sparse, event-driven spikes rather than dense numerical activations. However, most training pipelines either rely on surrogate-gradient…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Arman Ferdowsi , Atakan Aral

Single Flux Quantum (SFQ) technology represents a groundbreaking advancement in computational efficiency and ultra-high-speed neuromorphic processing. The key features of SFQ technology, particularly data representation, transmission, and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Mustafa Altay Karamuftuoglu , Beyza Zeynep Ucpinar , Sasan Razmkhah , Mehdi Kamal , Massoud Pedram

Neuromorphic hardware aims to leverage distributed computing and event-driven circuit design to achieve an energy-efficient AI system. The name "neuromorphic" is derived from its spiking and local computing nature, which mimics the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Zhenhui Chen , Haoran Xu , Yangfan Hu , Xiaofei Jin , Xinyu Li , Ziyang Kang , Gang Pan , De Ma

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) introduces a centralized network control and management by separating the data plane from the control plane which facilitates traffic flow monitoring, security analysis and policy formulation. However, it…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Trung V. Phan , Syed Tasnimul Islam , Tri Gia Nguyen , Thomas Bauschert

Inspired by biological processes, neuromorphic computing leverages spiking neural networks (SNNs) to perform inference tasks, offering significant efficiency gains for workloads involving sequential data. Recent advances in hardware and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Dengyu Wu , Jiechen Chen , Bipin Rajendran , H. Vincent Poor , Osvaldo Simeone

The state-of-the-art speech enhancement has limited performance in speech estimation accuracy. Recently, in deep learning, the Transformer shows the potential to exploit the long-range dependency in speech by self-attention. Therefore, it…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Yi Li , Yang Sun , Syed Mohsen Naqvi

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer an energy-efficient paradigm for machine intelligence, but their continued scaling poses challenges for resource-limited deployment. Despite recent advances in binary SNNs, the storage and computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Wenjie Wei , Malu Zhang , Jieyuan Zhang , Ammar Belatreche , Shuai Wang , Yimeng Shan , Hanwen Liu , Honglin Cao , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang , Haizhou Li

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) exhibit significant potential due to their low energy consumption. Converting Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) to SNNs is an efficient way to achieve high-performance SNNs. However, many conversion methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Zihan Huang , Wei Fang , Tong Bu , Peng Xue , Zecheng Hao , Wenxuan Liu , Yuanhong Tang , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang

A number of production deep learning clusters have attempted to explore inference hardware for DNN training, at the off-peak serving hours with many inference GPUs idling. Conducting DNN training with a combination of heterogeneous training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Juntao Zhao , Borui Wan , Yanghua Peng , Haibin Lin , Yibo Zhu , Chuan Wu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are increasingly favored for deployment on resource-constrained edge devices due to their energy-efficient and event-driven processing capabilities. However, training SNNs remains challenging because of the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Haoxiong Ren , Yangu He , Kwunhang Wong , Rui Bao , Ning Lin , Zhongrui Wang , Dashan Shang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained attention for their energy-efficient machine learning capabilities, utilizing bio-inspired activation functions and sparse binary spike-data representations. While recent SNN algorithmic advances…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Abhiroop Bhattacharjee , Ruokai Yin , Abhishek Moitra , Priyadarshini Panda

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have great potential for energy-efficient implementation of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on dedicated neuromorphic hardware. Recent studies demonstrated competitive performance of SNNs compared with DNNs on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Weihao Tan , Devdhar Patel , Robert Kozma

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are emerging as a brain-inspired alternative to traditional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), prized for their potential energy efficiency on neuromorphic hardware. Despite this, SNNs often suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Chengting Yu , Xiaochen Zhao , Lei Liu , Shu Yang , Gaoang Wang , Erping Li , Aili Wang

Time-series forecasting in domains like traffic management and industrial monitoring often requires real-time, energy-efficient processing on edge devices with limited resources. Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer event-driven computation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Kaiwen Tang , Jiaqi Zheng , Yuze Jin , Yupeng Qiu , Guangda Sun , Zhanglu Yan , Weng-Fai Wong

Energy-efficient spikformer has been proposed by integrating the biologically plausible spiking neural network (SNN) and artificial Transformer, whereby the Spiking Self-Attention (SSA) is used to achieve both higher accuracy and lower…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Qingyu Wang , Duzhen Zhang , Tilelin Zhang , Bo Xu

Implantable Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) are promising for motor rehabilitation and mobility augmentation, and they demand accurate and energy-efficient algorithms. In this paper, we propose a novel spiking neural network (SNN) decoder…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-06 Jiawei Liao , Oscar Toomey , Xiaying Wang , Lars Widmer , Cynthia A. Chestek , Luca Benini , Taekwang Jang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as energy-efficient alternatives to traditional artificial neural networks, leveraging asynchronous and biologically inspired neuron dynamics. Among existing neuron models, the Leaky…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Eric Jahns , Davi Moreno , Milan Stojkov , Michel A. Kinsy